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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. 
 I've seen different measures of US literacy averages. People repeat the 5th grade level as the average a lot, but I've seen 6th, 7th, and 8th grade mentioned. There's a particular survey called the NALS which seems more technical, they have numerical score ranges which are not translated into grade levels. WE are definitely not great, but we seem to be better than Italy, Spain, France, Poland, and Austria. (And the first three have the advantage of latin languages with easy grammatical structure and consistent spelling,and I'm sure similar advantages with Polish and German)

The same Cleveland Clinic article other words that are not obviously dumbed down, for example: "When this happens, toxic components of your muscle fibers enter your circulation system and kidneys." I wonder if someone who doesn't know what urine is would know what a circulatory system is or toxic components. It's not as if they are consistent, which contributes to these colloquial words standing out.

But also, shouldn't they be trying to to educate their readers among the public? If you can't teach people that urine is a medical (and legal, for that matter) term for pee, how do you expect them to understand that antibiotics won't kill a virus (they're both "bugs") or how a vaccine can be effective yet you still might catch covid or flu? [/quote]

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